Picture Coding Symposium  -  PCS'2007                
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*                7-9 November 2007, Lisbon - Portugal                 *
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Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) is an international forum devoted
specifically to advancements in visual data coding. Since 1969, PCS has
provided the meeting place for the visual coding community: industry,
research, academia and users. The 26th PCS will be held in Lisbon,
Portugal, on 7-9 November 2007.

The day before, 6 November, a Workshop on Recent Advances in
Distributed Video Coding will be organized (free registration at
http://www.discoverdvc.org/Workshop.html). In this workshop, recent
developments on distributed video coding will be presented by the most
prominent experts in the field.

The 16th International Packet Video Workshop will be held in Lausanne,
Switzerland, on 12-13 November 2007.


TOPICS OF INTEREST:
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Topics of interest for submissions include, but are not limited to:

- Coding of still and moving pictures
- Content-based and object-based coding
- Scalable video coding
- Coding of multiview video and 3D graphics
- Modeling and synthetic coding
- Virtual/augmented reality and telepresence
- Coding for mobile, IP and sensor networks
- High fidelity visual data processing and coding
- Analysis for coding and adaptation
- Transcoding and transmoding
- Joint audio and visual processing and coding
- Subjective and objective quality assessment metrics and methods
- Error robustness, resilience and concealment
- Coding and indexing for database applications
- Protection and integrity of visual data
- Persistent association of information to visual data
- Joint source and channel coding
- Implementation architectures and VLSI
- New applications and  techniques for visual data coding
- Standards for visual data coding


PAPER SUBMISSION
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Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of no more
than four (4) pages, in English, including results, figures and references. 
Submissions will be accepted only in PDF format
and should be made using the on-line submission system available at
http://www.pcs2007.org/


SPECIAL SESSIONS SUBMISSION
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Proposals for special sessions must include a title, rationale, session
outline, session chair, a list of authors who have agree to present a
paper, and a tentative title and abstract of each paper. Proposals
should be sent to the Special Session Chair at
special_sessions@pcs2007.org  before June 1, 2007.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of special sessions: June 1, 2007
Submission of extended summaries: June 10, 2007
Notification of acceptance: September 3, 2007
Submission of camera-ready papers: September 21, 2007

Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop CD Proceedings.


HIGHLIGHTS
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PCS'2007 will feature as Invited Lectures:

- "H.264/AVC and its Extensions: How Close is this Family?"
  by Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA

- "DCT, Wavelets and X-lets: The Quest for Image Representation,
Approximation and Compression"
  by Martin Vetterli, EPFL, Switzerland and UC Berkeley, USA

- "Efficient Representation of Sound Images: Recent Developments in
Parametric Coding of Spatial Audio"
  by Jürgen Herre, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS),
Erlangen, Germany

PCS'2007 will also include three Discussion Panels:

- "Distributed Video Coding"
  chaired by Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Switzerland

- "Video Content Protection: Does it Really Matter?"
  chaired by Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA

- "Multimedia: Video, Audio and More for a World of Possibilities"
  chaired by Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands